YII Framework Installation on XAMPP in PHP

Introduction 

Yii is a PHP framework for developing large-scale web applications rapidly.

Note: the Yii Framework does require PHP 5.1 or above. Yii is a free, open-source framework for PHP5.

Features

• High-performance framework.

• Model-View-Controller architecture.

• Integration with other frameworks. It's easy to use Zend or PEAR features in Yii.

 

Install XAMPP

If you do not have xammp then download XAMPP from the following site.

https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html.

Double-click the xammp icons. To open the xammp Control Panel and to start a button for Apache and MySQL see the following screen.

 

 

Install Yii framework

 

Step 1: Download the Yii framework from site.

 

Step 2: If you download it then extract the compressed files into the XAMPP htdocs folder. The path is given below:

 

Step 3: Run the framework and check the Yii requirements using the checker.

 

 

 

Step 4: The next step is to set up the environment variables.

From the Start menu right-click on Computer then seelct Properties > Advanced system settings. The System Properties window will be displayed.

 

 

Step 5: Click the Environment Variables button and the Environment Variables window will be shown.

 

 

 

Step 6: Open a cmd Command Prompt and run the following command.

 

 

Final step: To successfully install Yii in XAMPP, install it.